Stuck In Thee Garage #469: March 31, 2023

People tend to dislike change, especially when it disrupts something they're used to. But it's pointless to resist it because everything is constantly changing. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about change in hour 2 and it was an ever-changing triumph (although I didn't play any Triumph). If you don't believe, just ask Larry or his brother Darryl, or his other brother Darryl.

The transformative playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Shame - Six-Pack/Food For Worms

Mudhoney - Move Under/Plastic Eternity

Bully - Days Move Slow/Lucky For You

Today Junior - Sweet Little Nothings/Single

Near Beer - Slow Motion Pain/Single

Eyelids - I Can't Be Told/A Colossal Waste of Light

Black Country, New Road - Up Song/Live at Bush Hall

Los Bitchos - Trapdoor/Pah!

The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Too Late For an Early Grave/The Town That Cursed Your Name

Yves Tumor - Ebony Eye/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume

Sleaford Mods - So Trendy/UK Grim

Ex-Hyena - Memory Bliss/Moon Reflections Remixed

Quasi - Last Long Laugh/Breaking the Balls of History

Yo La Tengo - Until It Happens/This Stupid World

The C.I.A. - You Can Be Here/Surgery Channel

Fucked Up - Nothing's Immortal/One Day

Ron Gallo - San Benedetto/Foreground Music

Hour 2: Change

Van Halen - Unchained/Fair Warning

Rollins Band - Change It Up/Get Some Go Again

Dead Moon - Cast Will Change/What a Way to See the Old Girl Go

Mikal Cronin - Change/MCII

Swearin' - Big Change/Fall Into the Sun

The Beths - Change in the Weather/Expert in a Dying Field

Fleeting Joys - Change My Sign/All Lost Eyes and Glitter

Screaming Trees - Change Has Come/Change Has Come

PUP - Nothing Changes/This Place Sucks Ass

Kiwi Jr. - Nothing Changes/Football Money

The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed/Electric Version

Sugar - Changes/Copper Blue

INXS - Don't Change/Shabooh Shoobah

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The Cool Change/Sideways to New Italy

LCD Soundsystem - change yr mind/American Dream

Ceremony - I Don't Wanna Be Learned/I Don't Wanna Be Tamed /Zoo Bonuses

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Stuck In Thee Garage #468: March 24, 2023

In these uncertain times, mental health has never been more important. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about insanity in hour 2. They're so good, they might have you grinning maniacally.

Ride on, playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Protomartyr - Make Way/Formal Growth in the Desert 

Eyelids - They Said So/A Colossal Waste of Light

Hallelujah the Hills - Father's Name is Dad/January 2023 covers

Sleaford Mods - Diwhy/UK Grim

Near Beer - Forced Perspective/Single

Quasi - Riots & Jokes/Breaking the Balls of History

The New Pornographers - Angelcover/Continue as a Guest

Yves Tumor - Lovely Sewer/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume

Enumclaw: 10th and J2/Save the Baby

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Death Wish/Weathervanes

King Tuff - The Bandits of Blue Sky/Smalltown Stardust

Pile - Lowered Rainbow/All Fiction

The C.I.A. - Inhale Exhale/Surgery Channel

Quiz Show - Monumental Shade/Quiz Show

Beat Awfuls - Skyscraper Women/PAWS

Rob Munk - Run/Phased Out

Blues Lawyer - Scenic Route/All in Good Time

Hour 2: Insane

Superchunk - Mad World/Break the Glass

Titus Andronicus - I'm Going Insane (Finish Him)/The Most Lamentable Tragedy

Sonic Youth - I'm Insane/Bad Moon Rising

Queens of the Stone Age - Everybody Knows That You Are Insane/Lullabies to Paralyze

Count Five - Psychotic Reaction/Psychotic Reaction

Alice Cooper - Ballad of Dwight Fry/Love It to Death

Lou Reed - Kill Your Sons/Sally Can't Dance

Neil Young - Revolution Blues/On the Beach

Violent Femmes - Country Death Song/Hallowed Ground

The Kinks - Destroyer/Give the People What They Want

Black Sabbath - Paranoid/Paranoid

Iron Maiden - Still Life/Piece of Mind

Bloc Party - She's Hearing Voices/Silent Alarm

Pixies - Crackity Jones/Doolittle

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta/Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?

Van Halen - Loss of Control/Women and Children First

 

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Stuck In Thee Garage #467: March 17, 2023

If there's one thing most people like to do, it's talk, talk and talk some more. Often to the point where it just becomes noise. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs about talking, which are infinitely more interesting than talking about songs (which is something I also do). Sidle up to your cardboard cutouts of celebrities and discuss, won't you?

This is the King of Playlists:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The New Pornographers - Pontius Pilate's Home Movies/Continue as a Guest

Eyelids - Swinging in the Circus/A Colossal Waste of Light

Yves Tumor - Echolalia/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Sleaford Mods - Force 10 From Navarone/UK Grim

Ron Gallo - Can My Flowers Even Grow Here?/Foreground Music

Ex-Hyena - Cloud City Nights/Moon Reflections Remixed

The C.I.A. - Better/Surgery Channel

Quiz Show - Big Bank/Quiz Show

Tanlines - Outer Banks/The Big Mess

Fucked Up - Roar/One Day

Screaming Females - It's All Said and Done/Desire Pathway

Pile - Blood/All Fiction

Talking Heads - I Zimbra/Fear of Music

Talking Heads - Houses in Motion/Remain in Light

Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless/Remain in Light

 

Hour 2: Talking

The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So/Veni Vidi Vicious

Death From Above 1979 - Cheap Talk/The Physical World

Wild Flag - Endless Talk/Wild Flag

Johnny Foreigner - Stop Talking About Ghosts/You Can Do Better

Sloan - She Says What She Means/Navy Blues

Matthew Sweet - Does She Talk?/Girlfriend

O Positive - Talk About Love/Cloud Factory

Run the Jewels - Talk to Me/RTJ3

De La Soul - Say No Go/3 Feet High and Rising

Living Colour - Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing/Biscuits

Ladyhawk - I Don't Always Know What You're Saying/Shots

Sugar - Believe What You're Saying/File Under: Easy Listening

Lou Reed - Caroline Says I/Berlin

Ween - What Deaner Was Talking About/Chocolate & Cheese

Big Chief - The Liquor Talkin'/Platinum Jive

Chris Whitley - Some Candy Talking/Din of Ecstasy

 

 I got your less talk, more rock RIGHT HERE.

Completely Conspicuous 609: Right About Now

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1998. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• More of Phil's non-top 5s: Monster Magnet, R.E.M., Hole, Dave Matthews Band
• Jay's non-top 5s: Tragically Hip, Monster Magnet, Jerry Cantrell, Frank Black and the Catholics, Beastie Boys, Rocket From the Crypt, Rancid, Cat Power
  
• Phil tells of a magical mixtape service
• Phil's #5: Moe with a jazzy jam band album
• Phil says he's not a "Moe-ron"
• Not hating on Steely Dan
• Jay's #5: Silver Jews with downbeat indie rock classic
  
• Phil's #4 and Jay's #2: The debut from Queens of the Stone Age kicks serious ass, combining stoner rock with robotic grooves
• Jay's #4: Followed up Odelay with the experimental Mutations
• Phil's #3: A fun release from the Beastie Boys
• Jay's #3: R&B-influenced album from Afghan Whigs was last before they broke up
• Phil's #2: Phish's 7th album featured a "cow funk" sound
• Phil's #1: Big breakthrough from Fatboy Slim paved the way for DJ as frontman
• Jay's #1: Sloan with a '70s vibe, from arena rockers to sunny AM pop
• Favorite songs: "Praise You" (Phil), "She Says What She Means" (Jay)

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #466: March 10, 2023

It's hard to imagine life without the constant use of technology that we have today, but 40 years ago, the most complicated tech we had was in our videogame consoles. TVs were like furniture, phones were attached to the wall and when you took photos, you had to pay to get them developed. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from 1983 in hour 2 and it was truly all over the place and great. Just like a trip to WalleyWorld.

The surprising playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

The C.I.A. - Impersonator/The C.I.A.

Iguana Death Cult - Sensory Overload/Echo Palace

Quasi - Rotten Wrock/Breaking the Balls of History

Ron Gallo - Vanity March/Foreground Music

Yves Tumor - God Is a Circle/Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Ex-Hyena - The Suitcase/Moon Reflections Remixed

King Tuff - Portrait of God/Smalltown Stardust

Gord Downie and Bob Rock - Camaro/Lustre Parfait

Lucero - At the Show/Should've Learned By Now

Wilco - Tired of Taking It Out On You/Cruel Country

Quiz Show - Sell the Scene/Quiz Show

Screaming Females - Ornament/Desire Pathway

Pile - Nude With a Suitcase/All Fiction

Black Belt Eagle Scout - Nobody/The Land, the Water, the Sky

Beat Awfuls - Interstate Skeletons/PAWS

Blues Lawyer - Make Up/All in Good Time

Hour 2: 1983

The Replacements - Take Me Down to the Hospitals/Hootenanny

X - Breathless/More Fun in the New World

The Police - Miss Gradenko/Synchronicity

Dio - Stand Up and Shout/Holy Diver

Iron Maiden - The Trooper/Piece of Mind

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon/Bark at the Moon

Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday/Seven and the Ragged Tiger

The Fixx - The Sign of Fire/Reach the Beach

U2 - Like a Song.../War

David Bowie - Criminal World/Let's Dance

The B-52's - Song For a Future Generation/Whammy!

Def Leppard - Stagefright/Pyromania

Motley Crue - Too Young to Fall in Love/Shout at the Devil

Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat/Thunder and Lightning

Motorhead - Dancing On Your Grave/Another Perfect Day

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Completely Conspicuous 608: Tubthumping

Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1998. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• 1998 was 25 years ago!
• Jay turned 31, Phil turned 29
• The one-hit wonders were abundant
• Alt-rock was fading in popularity
• MTV was predominantly airing programming that wasn't videos
• MP3s became another way to share/steal music
• Paved the way for Napster and eventually the near-collapse of the music industry
• Pop was taking over: Britney, Backstreet Boys, N Sync
• Artists who started out great and then just sold out/sucked
• Phil's non-top 5's: PJ Harvey, Mercury Rev, Drive-By Truckers, Pearl Jam, Government Mule, Mark Lanegan, Jerry Cantrell, Tragically Hip, Neutral Milk Hotel 
• The Hip played at Woodstock '99 (correction: it was the weekend after JFK Jr.'s plane crash)
• To be continued

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #465: March 3, 2023

Never underestimate the tenacity of a record collector. Not just for the run-of-the-mill stuff, but especially for the music that's a little more uncommon. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played B-sides and rarities in hour 2.

This playlist is the bob-omb:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Lucero - One Last F.U./Should've Learned By Now

Quasi - Nowheresville/Breaking the Balls of History

Loki's Folly - No Right/SISU

Spirit Award - Pushing Forward/The Fear

Thrillhouse - Fatal Flaw/Single

Avey Tare - Invisible Darling/7s

Hannah Jadagu - What You Did/Aperture

Temples - Gamma Rays/Exotico

Induce - Last/Beautiful Distortion

King Tuff - Rock River/Smalltown Stardust

Quiz Show - Dime a Dozen/Quiz Show

Yo La Tengo - Tonight's Episode/This Stupid World

Megadose - Mote of Reflection/Heating Up

Superchunk - Making a Break/Everything Hurts

Fucked Up - Cicada/One Day

 

Hour 2: B-sides and rarities

Husker Du - The Truth Hurts (demo)/Savage Young Du

Mudhoney - Ounce of Deception/Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (30th Anniversary Edition)

Rocket From the Crypt - Delorean/Runnin' On Fumes: The Gearhead Magazine Singles Compilation 

Johnny Foreigner - things we should have left on the beach/European Disco: Collected B-Sides and Remixes 2008-10

Pink Mountaintops x White Lung - Chinese Watermelon/CONS EP Vol. 3

Plague Vendor - SPF/Night Sweats

Beck - Thunder Peel/Odelay (deluxe edition)

Matthew Sweet - Happiness/Kids in the Hall Brain Candy 

Stephen Malkmus - Shake It Around/Pig Lib

The Lemonheads - Sad Girl/Crawling From Within

Queens of the Stone Age - Christian Brothers/Sick, Sick, Sick

Sonic Youth - Computer Age/The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young

Gary Oldman - I Wanna Be Your Dog/Sid & Nancy: Love Kills

Japandroids - To Hell With Good Intentions/Saucony Originals - Death and Taxes Present: A Perfect Pair

Obits - One Cross Apiece/Single

Smashing Pumpkins - Frail and Bedazzled/Pisces Iscariot

Nirvana - Aneurysm/Incesticide

 

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Stuck In Thee Garage #464: February 24, 2023

To quote noted philosophers Cheech and Chong, things are tough all over. More people than ever are working side jobs. This concept is nothing new to the rock world, although side projects are typically done for artistic as opposed to financial reasons. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played songs from side projects in hour 2. You'll enjoy it, especially if you're a college professor who moonlights as a swashbuckling adventurer looking for the Holy Grail.

There are no snakes hiding in this playlist:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Cable Ties - Perfect Client/Single

Quiz Show - Almost Famous/Quiz Show

Screaming Females - Desert Train/Desire Pathway

Pile - Gardening Hours/All Fiction

Beat Awfuls - Ego Death Kult/PAWS

Yo La Tengo - Brain Capers/This Stupid World

Blues Lawyer - Wrong Time/All In Good Time

Fight Milk - ICU/Fight Milk

Billy Nomates - Cacti/Cacti

Wet Leg - Loving You (Demo)/Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All

Ron Gallo - Yucca Valley Marshalls/Foreground Music

S.C.A.B. - Myrtle-Wyckoff/S.C.A.B.

Hammered Hulls - Sounding the Sea/Careening

Weird Nightmare - Darkroom/Weird Nightmare

De La Soul - Eye Know/3 Feet High and Rising

De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"/De La Soul Is Dead

De La Soul and Teenage Fanclub - Fallin'/Judgment Night soundtrack

Hour 2: Side hustles

The Folk Implosion - Natural One/Kids soundtrack

Boss Hog - I Dig You/Boss Hog

The Amps - I Am Decided/Pacer

The Dead Weather - Hang You From the Heavens/Horehound

The Gutter Twins - Bete Noire/Saturnalia

Desert Sessions - Crawl Home/The Desert Sessions Vol. 9 & 10

Ex Hex - Waste Your Time/Rips

Wild Flag - Future Crimes/Wild Flag

Burning Airlines - Paper Crowns/Identikit

Divine Fits - Like Ice Cream/A Thing Called Divine Fits

The Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll/Stop Drop and Roll!!!

Grinderman - Worm Tamer/Grinderman 2

Future of the Left - Throwing Bricks at Trains/Travels With Myself and Another

Drive Like Jehu - Human Interest/Yank Crime

The Both - Pay For It/The Both

The I Don't Cares - King of America/Wild Stab

The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Kingdom of Doom/The Good, the Bad & the Queen

Consonant - Post-Pathetic/Consonant

Sidle up to the rock jams HERE, homes.

 

Stuck In Thee Garage #463: February 17, 2023

Life in the big city isn't for everyone. Take me, for example. I spent the first seven years of my life living in high-rise apartment buildings. After that, it's been nothing but the 'burbs for me. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy doing fun stuff in the city. At any rate, I played songs about city life this week in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage. Listen to it while you contemplate what the hell you're doing in a hotel in Tokyo.

This playlist is not lost in translation:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Yo La Tengo - Sinatra Drive Breakdown/This Stupid World

Beat Awfuls - Narc/PAWS

Fucked Up - Broken Little Boys/One Day

Ron Gallo - Anything But This/Foreground Music

Gord Downie and Bob Rock - Something More/Lustre Parfait

Palm - Mirror Mirror/Nicks and Grazes

Megadose - Hey 911/Heating Up

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Spitting Off the Edge of the World (feat. Perfume Genius)/Cool It Down

Enumclaw - Blue Iris/Save the Baby

Osees - Funeral Solution/A Foul Form

Viagra Boys - The Cognitive Trade-Off Hypothesis/Cave World

ON - Break You/ON

Archers of Loaf - Mama Was a War Profiteer/Reason In Decline

Sloan - Nice Work If You Can Get It/Steady

Widows Gold - Tell Me/Love Drops

Hour 2: City life

Kiwi Jr. - Downtown Area Blues/Chopper

Woolen Men - Alien City/Temporary Monument

Thunderbirds Are Now! - Eat This City/Justamustache

Savages - City's Full/Silence Yourself

PUP - City/Morbid Stuff

The Twilight Singers - Fat City (Slight Return)/Blackberry Belle

Mark Lanegan Band - Hit the City/Bubblegum

Courtney Barnett - City Looks Pretty/Tell Me How You Really Feel

Wilco - Capitol City/The Whole Love

Palehound - The City/Black Friday

Prince - Erotic City / The Hits/The B-Sides

The Nation of Ulysses - Hot Chocolate City/13-Point Program to Destroy America

Tim Armstrong - Inner City Violence/A Poet's Life

Iggy Pop and James Williamson - Kill City/Kill City

Frank Black - Punk Rock City/The Cult of Ray

Titus Andronicus - In a Big City/Local Business

Ted Leo - Run to the City/The Hanged Man

Hot Snakes - Salton City/Automatic Midnight

 

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Completely Conspicuous 607: My Poor Brain

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about the music of 1997. Listen to the episode below or download directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:

• Jay's non-top 5 albums: Cornershop, Yo La Tengo, Elliott Smith, Chris Whitley, Portishead, Ween
• Phil's #5 and Jay's #4: Ben Folds Five's breakthrough with piano-driven snark
• Phil's #4: Third album from Sleater-Kinney features Janet Weiss' debut on drums
• Phil's #3: Elliott Smith's lo-fi folk got a boost from Good Will Hunting
• Jay's #3: Built to Spill with another of their epic '90s releases
• Phil's #2: Dylan makes a triumphant return
• When artists stop writing new material 
• Jay's #2: A masterful release from Pavement
• Phil's #1 and Jay's #5; Second Foo Fighters album establishes Grohl and his band as a musical force
• Jay's #1: Radiohead reaches new heights on its third album
• How Jay learned to love Radiohead
• Favorite songs: "My Poor Brain" (Phil), "Karma Police" (Jay)

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Stuck In Thee Garage #462: February 10, 2023

A wise man once said, "Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future." Okay, maybe he wasn't that wise, but he wasn't wrong, either. Time marches on and here we are in 20-freakin'-23, wondering how we got here. This week on Stuck In Thee Garage, I played music from 35 years ago in hour 2 and I'm still not sure how so much time has passed. I'm too old for this shit.

This playlist has a million dollar arm but a five-cent head:

Hour 1

Artist - Song/Album

Blues Lawyer - Someone Else/All In Good Time

Beat Awfuls - College Ring/PAWS

The Nude Party - Ride On/Rides On

Geese - Cowboy Nudes/Single

Gord Downie & Bob Rock - The Raven and the Red-Tailed Hawk/Lustre Parfait

Palm - On the Sly/Nicks and Grazes

Lowertown - Antibiotics/I Love to Lie

Fucked Up - I Think I Might Be Weird/One Day

Ron Gallo - Foreground Music/Foreground Music

Baby; Baby: Explores the Reason Why That Gum Is Still On the Sidewalk - Pants/Food Near Me, Weather Tomorrow

Widows Gold - I Can't Help You/Love Drops

Hammered Hulls - Bog People/Careening

Emerald Comets - Smoke From the Ships/Single

Dry Cleaning - Gary Ashby/Stumpwork

Fazerdaze - Overthink It/Break!

Screaming Females - Brass Bell/Desire Pathway

Ian Blurton's Future Now - When the Storm Comes Home/Second Skin

 

Hour 2: 1988

The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death/Birth, School, Work, Death

Jane's Addiction - Pigs In Zen/Nothing's Shocking

Dinosaur Jr. - Keep the Glove/Bug

The Church - Under the Milky Way/Starfish

The Pursuit of Happiness - When the Sky Comes Falling Down/Love Junk

Soul Asylum - Marionette/Hang Time

Pixies - Gigantic/Surfer Rosa

Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip/Daydream Nation

Soundgarden - All Your Lies/Ultramega OK

Living Colour - Middle Man/Vivid

Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do/Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd./New York

Public Enemy - Don't Believe the Hype/It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

R.E.M. - Orange Crush/Green

 

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